Darwin, C. R. to Leighton, W. A.
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Acknowledges election as Honorary Member of Shropshire and North Wales Natural History and Antiquarian Society.
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12 Upper Gower St
December 1
Sir
I have the honour to acknowledge the receipt of your letter, announcing to me, that I have been elected an Honorary Member of the Shropshire and North Wales Natural History and Antiquarian Society.— I should be much obliged, if you would on the first fitting occasion, express my high sense of the honour, which has been done me, by the Members of the Philosophical Institution of my native Town.
I sincerely trust, it may long prosper and spread that taste for the Natural Sciences, to which it owes its foundation.
I beg permission to deposit in the Library copies of two small papers, which have lately been published in the last Volume of the Geological Transactions.
I have the honour to remain | Sir | Your obliged and obedient
servant | Charles Darwin
To | W. Allport
Leigton Esq
Hon. Sec & Cur | of | the Shropshire Nat Hist. & Antiq. Soc.
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‘On the formation of mould’ (Collected papers 1: 49–53) and ‘On the connexion of certain volcanic phenomena’ (ibid. 1: 53–86) were published in the Transactions of the Geological Society of 1840.